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Quote from: Zammer990 on December 23, 2014, 04:20:32 pm

Going above 500 years tends to have less wars (the civs get bored or something), and many of the world's beasts will have died.
IF you're going for a small world, leg is much less of an issue than in a larger one, so when I play adventure mode I always for for small or smaller, with about 500 years, still get a good amount of vampires and night creatures, as night creatures spread and vampires almost never die in worldgen
But 125 is fine for finding loot and lots of people, less tombs though

I'd be wanting a world that's medium or larger.
Would 250 be good?

I killed one by throwing unicorns at it. Zombie unicorns.

Whilst we're talking about vampires is anyone else having trouble finding them in 2014? In the older versions you could just spam the quest option till they told you about a night creature but there's so much extra stuff in DF2014 that the quest log just gets full of stuff.

Quote from: StagnantSoul on December 07, 2014, 12:00:43 pm

One problem: Stab him in the throat with a knife, there goes that fun. I like idea though, just your nemisis shouldn't pursue you himself. Mercenaries, bounty hunters, hired soldiers, send those after you. One big goal would be to kill him/her.

In the idea I had, the player would be outmatched against the nemesis in direct combat to the point where attempting to fight them or stab them in the throat would likely result in the player being killed. The option would be left open to the player to try to do that but it would be extremely difficult and would feel like a huge accomplishment if achieved. This would make it unlikely that the player would just kill him and end the threat right away.

It is a good point though that the nemesis would not always have to be there himself. If enough groups of bandits attacking the player saying "Olaf Trestlefeared sent us" it would make the player want to track him down.

Also it would be cool if necromancers behaved in this manner and tracked down and attacked the player with a horde of zombies once they felt like they could be threated by the player.

Quote from: Dirst on December 04, 2014, 03:43:14 pm

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Quote from: miauw62 on December 04, 2014, 10:32:58 am

You're basically suggesting "roll a d100 every tick, if it's a one one of your dorfs dies and there's NOTHING you can do about it". Realism is nice and all, but not when it significantly worsens the gameplay experience.

Small wounds would be OK, especially in avoidable situations (overcrowding and such, as others have suggested). Dwarves just randomly dying through no fault of your own isn't fun, though.

I said it should be rare to seem the die, but it still should be a thing that happens. I don't think it makes gameplay worse if your dwarves have a small chance to die of natural causes. It's no different than old age, except it won't require players to gen long histories or run forts for decades to experience.

I think aging should be in the game too, but that's a separate suggestion.

To make random accidents a feature rather than a bug, the player should have some control over the rate.  Maybe unstressed Dwarves are less accident prone (or more likely, a Goldilocks zone of moderate stress is best).  Or the player can choose shorter breaks with a concomitant increase in the chance for accidents.

Aging is in the game, it just is extremely rare in the span of a typical player fort.

I think the term you're looking for here is beggar. And yes, it is highly historically accurate. However, how do you decide who becomes a beggar? We already end up with dwarves who end up reaching noble positions being drunks.

Beggars shouldn't start no quarter fights, too. Perhaps muggers can be implemented, but only when an adventure mode justice system is more fleshed out (Watchmen stopping muggings, for example).